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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?
(a) Relativism.
(b) The future.
(c) The present.
(d) The past.

2. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?
(a) The study of subjectivity.
(b) Kant's objective argument.
(c) The understanding of "categories of thought".
(d) The study of substance versus properties.

3. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?
(a) Phenomena and substance must have been casually related.
(b) Phenomena and noumena must have been casually related.
(c) Phenomena and properties must have been casually related.
(d) Phenomena and noumena must have been closely related.

4. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Kant.
(c) Hume.
(d) Descartes.

5. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One has an identity.
(b) One is a human being.
(c) One is an intelligent self.
(d) One is a thinking self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the concept of humanity superimposed upon?

2. What did Kant believe must be true for an action to be good?

3. What is the name of the university Kant attended?

4. To Kant, what was being free?

5. Which of the following is an example of antinomy?

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